Attention BioE Students

*Fall 08 - New Courses* 

BioE 196
Senior Design Experience Capstone course
ccn: 07406
Day, Time & Location: W, 2-6, 130 Stanley Hall

Please note:
* Since this is the first time this course will be taught, the enrollment for this class will be limited to 20-25 students. This is a *SENIOR LEVEL CLASS*, only graduating and *SENIORS* (not seniors by AP credit, but actual senior) will be given priority. Students will be enrolled manually via the wait list, which means you will be unable to add the course but you will be asked if you would like to put yourself on the waiting list.
* Those students who are on the old curriculum will be able to use this course to fulfill an upper division technical elective. It will be added to the Fall 08 Electives list

Course Description:
This one semester course will introduce students to bioengineering project-based learning in small teams, with a strong emphasis on need-based solutions for real medical and research problems through prototype solution selection, design, and testing. The course is designed to provide a “capstone” design experience for graduating bioengineering seniors. The course will be structured around a course reader, with materials drawn from product design texts, design process articles, and clinical problem case studies. Where appropriate, the syllabus will include guest lecturers from clinicians and engineers from academia and industry. The course will include organized activities, during which teams will participate in exercises meant to reinforce lecture material through direct application to the team design project. Lectures, activities, and guest lectures from experts are an essential component of the class.

BioE 190D/290D
Frontiers in Microbial Systems Biology
Instructor: Adam Arkin & design and teaching assistance from Ilka Bischofs-Pfeifer and Denise Wolf
CCN: 07250 for ugrad
Day, Time: TT 3:30-5, 458 Evans
Units: 3
Prerequisites: The course is designed for advanced undergraduates or graduate students with a background that includes differential equations and probability. Course work in molecular biology and biochemistry would be helpful, but is not required.
New Curriculum: Concentration: Computational bioengineering. Course can be used to fulfill one BioE Topics requirement
Old Curriculum: Core areas B&D

Course description:
Frontiers in (Microbial) Systems Biology is aimed at graduate and advanced undergraduate students from the (bio)engineering and chemo-physical sciences interested in a research-oriented introduction to current topics in systems biology. Focusing mainly on two well studied microbiological model systems - the chemotaxis network and Lambda bacteriophage infection - the class systematically introduces key concepts and techniques for biological network deduction, modelling, analysis, evolution and synthetic network design. Students analyze the impact of approaches from the quantitative sciences - such as deterministic modelling, stochastic processes, statistics, non-linear dynamics, control theory, information theory, graph theory, etc.- on understanding biological processes, including (stochastic) gene regulation, signalling, network evolution and synthetic network design. The course aims to identify unsolved problems and discusses possible novel approaches while encouraging students to develop ideas to explore new directions in their own research.

BioE 190H: Introduction of Bionanoscience and Bionanotechnology
ccn: 07256
day, time: TT, 12:30-2, 75 Evans
Instructor: Seung-Wuk Lee
Units: 4 units
Prerequisites: Chemistry (1A) and Biology (1A) or E45
Core Specialization: Biomaterials, Bio-nanomaterials, Bio-Nanoscience, Bio-nanotechnology.

Course description: This course is intended for the bioengineering or engineering undergraduate students interested in acquiring a background of recent development of bio-nanomaterials and bio-nanotechnology. The emphasis of the class is to understand the properties of biological basic building blocks, their assembly principles in nature, and their application to build functional materials and devices. The goal is for the bioengineering students to gain sufficient chemical and physical aspects of biological materials through the case study of spider webs, silks, sea shells, diatoms, bones, teeth, as well as recently developed self-assembled nanostructures inspired by nature. The course covers the structures and properties of amino acids, DNAs, sugars, lipids, and their natural and artificial assembly structures. It also covers nanoscale inorganic materials used to develop nano medicines, bio-imaging, bio-sensors, bioelectronics, and machinery.